In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Frankenstein is distinguished man who becomes obsessed with a goal. His goal is to create life from different parts of a deceased human. The goal is to manifest a dead being into a living object, such as God created Man from dust and a women from the rib of a man.
First, Frankenstein is like God to me because his creation was same as Gods creation which was, man. Many people have accused Victor of “playing God” by fabricating a creature in his laboratory, in Ingolstadt. “Playing God” as Frankenstein is inadvertently doing is flawed by excessive hubris. Genesis 1:26-28, in the bible, God created man in his own image such as Frankenstein created his creature to be in his image and to better the world. Frankenstein …show more content…
He is lead to this research by his mentor M. Waldman. Frankenstein shares the goals of the alchemists whose publications he reads. The idea of preventing or completely eliminating death, and the idea of the revitalization of the lives of lifeless organisms. Frankenstein’s captivation with science while he was a child eventually leads him to follow an occupation involving the sciences, and Frankenstein’s experiences with the death of his love ones while he was a child causes him to develop the inquisitiveness for resurrecting the dead. This curiosity of resurrection is shown by the literature of Alchemists that he reads which includes, the works of Cornelius Agrippa and Paracelsus and Albertus Magnus. Resurrecting the dead is God-like because God resurrected Jesus from the dead and Frankenstein resurrects dead pieces of different human bodies to make it animate again. He commences on a private project that makes him capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter. Frankenstein’s pursuit of a project which allows him to bring life to lifeless things is his first and most drastic attempt to play God. Frankenstein’s …show more content…
Frankenstein is trying to be God-like in the matter of God destroyed the Earth with water in which destroying his creation. Frankenstein’s reasoning for trying to destroy his creation is similar to Gods because his creation was becoming out of hand such as humans were with God. In the bible (2 Peter 3:7) states,” But by His word the present heavens and earth are being reserved for fire, kept for the Day of Judgment and destruction of ungodly men.” In this instance, God destroyed his creation, Earth, by flooding the world. Frankenstein destroyed his second creation, the creature`s “Wife”, by trying to throw her into the river after taking her body apart. This is the same as Gods plan of destroying because he is destroying the corpse even though he did not succeed in drowning the body. The destruction of Frankenstein`s creature (wife) is a big key in the book and is one big way that he is looked at at being in a way God-like. The destruction of the creature is a way for the creator to literally put his creation in check to let it know that he is still the creator. God did the same thing by flooding the world because his creation was becoming out of control and becoming more corrupt, so God flooded the Earth to check his creation and to let us as humans to know he is God. Genesis 9:11 states, “And I will establish my covenant with you, neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a
First, Frankenstein is like God to me because his creation was same as Gods creation which was, man. Many people have accused Victor of “playing God” by fabricating a creature in his laboratory, in Ingolstadt. “Playing God” as Frankenstein is inadvertently doing is flawed by excessive hubris. Genesis 1:26-28, in the bible, God created man in his own image such as Frankenstein created his creature to be in his image and to better the world. Frankenstein …show more content…
He is lead to this research by his mentor M. Waldman. Frankenstein shares the goals of the alchemists whose publications he reads. The idea of preventing or completely eliminating death, and the idea of the revitalization of the lives of lifeless organisms. Frankenstein’s captivation with science while he was a child eventually leads him to follow an occupation involving the sciences, and Frankenstein’s experiences with the death of his love ones while he was a child causes him to develop the inquisitiveness for resurrecting the dead. This curiosity of resurrection is shown by the literature of Alchemists that he reads which includes, the works of Cornelius Agrippa and Paracelsus and Albertus Magnus. Resurrecting the dead is God-like because God resurrected Jesus from the dead and Frankenstein resurrects dead pieces of different human bodies to make it animate again. He commences on a private project that makes him capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter. Frankenstein’s pursuit of a project which allows him to bring life to lifeless things is his first and most drastic attempt to play God. Frankenstein’s …show more content…
Frankenstein is trying to be God-like in the matter of God destroyed the Earth with water in which destroying his creation. Frankenstein’s reasoning for trying to destroy his creation is similar to Gods because his creation was becoming out of hand such as humans were with God. In the bible (2 Peter 3:7) states,” But by His word the present heavens and earth are being reserved for fire, kept for the Day of Judgment and destruction of ungodly men.” In this instance, God destroyed his creation, Earth, by flooding the world. Frankenstein destroyed his second creation, the creature`s “Wife”, by trying to throw her into the river after taking her body apart. This is the same as Gods plan of destroying because he is destroying the corpse even though he did not succeed in drowning the body. The destruction of Frankenstein`s creature (wife) is a big key in the book and is one big way that he is looked at at being in a way God-like. The destruction of the creature is a way for the creator to literally put his creation in check to let it know that he is still the creator. God did the same thing by flooding the world because his creation was becoming out of control and becoming more corrupt, so God flooded the Earth to check his creation and to let us as humans to know he is God. Genesis 9:11 states, “And I will establish my covenant with you, neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a